mortuary

mor·tu·ary (môr′c̸ho̵̅o̅ er′ē)

noun pl. -·ar′·ies

a place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation, as a morgue or funeral home

Etymology: < LL mortuarius, of the dead < L mortuus, pp. of mori, to die: see mortal

adjective

charnel house, funeral parlor, funeral home; see morgue 1.

Converse of object

visit: Her son was murdered, and when she visited the mortuary, she was not allowed to touch the body.
include: Other buildings included a mortuary at the northeast of the site.
have: We have no mortuary; all we have is a screen which we place around the bed.
propose: Our concerns are legitimate practical, physical, environmental and psychological concerns by those of us who live close to the proposed mortuary.

Preposition: until

executor: The hospital will keep the body in the hospital mortuary until the executor arranges for it to be taken away.

Adjective modifier

temporary: Within 24 hours of the attacks, a temporary mortuary had been set up.
new: More than 70 homes will overlook the new mortuary, which will store a maximum of eight bodies in a refrigeration unit.
small: A small mortuary stood immediately to the north of the main building.
public: We do not have a public mortuary in the Boro.
old: It was founded as a Settlement in 1887 and its base is a community center in an old mortuary in the center of Rotherhithe.
sterile: The film then cuts sharply to a sterile mortuary and the rough face of ranch foreman Pete Perkins ( Tommy Lee Jones ).

Modifies a noun

chapel: He is buried near the mortuary chapel in the Old Mount Cemetery, off Old Farnham Road across the river.
temple: His tomb was found on the site of the Unas mortuary temple.
rite: Cremation A mortuary rite which involves burning human bodies on a wooden pyre.
enclosure: This is again a common characteristic of 'long mortuary enclosures ' .
ritual: Through mortuary ritual, the dead can give benefits to the living.
slab: Not the ten victims of this latest outrage, eight of them now decorating the mortuary slab.

Noun used with modifier

hospital: The body would be taken to the hospital mortuary.
emergency: Thus the infants school in Weymouth House in Abbey Green was used as the emergency mortuary.
timber: By analogy with other Beaker graves, it may suggest that a timber mortuary ' house ' enclosed the coffin.

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